Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 敗

Modern (Beijing) reading: bài

Preclassic Old Chinese: brāts

Classic Old Chinese: brāć

Western Han Chinese: brāś

Eastern Han Chinese: brāś

Early Postclassic Chinese: bạ̄ś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bạ̄̀j

Late Postclassic Chinese: bạ̄̀j

Middle Chinese: bạ̀j

English meaning : to go to ruin; the ruin, defeat

Russian meaning[s]: 1) разбить; быть разбитым; потерпеть (понести) поражение; поражение; 2) испортить(ся); разрушить(ся); искалечить(ся), изувечить(ся); рваный; сломанный; нарушить; 3) испорченный, протухший, разложившийся; 4) запустение, упадок; прийти в упадок

Comments: For *b cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou, Fuzhou pai⁶; Siam. bhā́i (*bāi). With consonant alternation: *prāts, MC pạ̀j (FQ 補邁)'to ruin, destroy'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 66

Four-angle index: 6252

Karlgren code: 0320 f-g

Vietnamese reading: bại

Shijing occurrences: 16.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *prV̄t (~ bh-)

Meaning: destroy

Chinese: 敗 *prāts to destroy.

Kachin: (H) phjet be destroyed.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAN *Ribas 'demolish', PAA *bǝ:c 'beat'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1183

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 敗

MC description : 蟹開二去夬並

ZIHUI: 2408 1032

Beijing: pai 3

Jinan: pɛ 3

Xi'an: pɛ 3

Taiyuan: pai 3

Hankou: pai 3

Chengdu: pai 3

Yangzhou: pɛ 3

Suzhou: ba_ 32

Wenzhou: ba 32

Changsha: pai 32

Shuangfeng: ba 32

Nanchang: phai 32

Meixian: phai 3

Guangzhou: pāi 32

Xiamen: pai 32

Chaozhou: pai 32

Fuzhou: pai 32

Shanghai: pa 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: pai 3

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